Rajesh Kumar Mallah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the explain below are the references > "outer"."?column2?" = "inner"."?column2?" > Ok?
Yeah, those are variables that don't have any name because they don't correspond exactly to table columns. It looks like the plan is merge-joining (main.id)::text to (groups_1.instance)::text. At the level of the scans it's possible to see the expressions involved, but at the level of the join those are just Var references to the outputs of the lower plan steps. We could possibly alter EXPLAIN to print the referred-to expression instead of faking up a name for the Var node, but this would make the printout look like the expression was being recomputed at the upper level, which it isn't. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly